About Michael Shrivathsan

I'm your author, Michael Shrivathsan, an expert in requirements management with successful experience at several innovative companies in Silicon Valley, USA over the past two decades. I'm also a USPTO patent recipient. For my day job, I'm the VP of Product Management at Accompa, we make the popular requirements management software.

Since the advent of the software industry, User Interface (UI) has been an afterthought – for the most part. UI is something the teams building the software slapped on the software at the end of a project.

Kinda like a coat of paint after the house was built! 🙂

The conventional wisdom (especially in B2B software) was that customers did not buy the software for the UI, they bought it for the functionality.

From this piece of conventional wisdom, another one followed: UI should *NOT* be a part of requirements. Rather, UI is something added after the requirements (use cases or functional requirements) were defined.

Just to reiterate the other post’s message: I’m a Mac user myself, and I’m happy to let you know Accompa is 100% compatible with Mac! 🙂

This is because Accompa is not only 100% cloud-based, it is also 100% based on HTML and related standards. And, it is *NOT* dependent on 3rd party plugins like Flash, Java, etc. Nor is it dependent on features specific to Internet Explorer or Chrome – like some apps these days.

This means, our requirements management software is fully (as in 100%) functional on Mac – and works on all major browsers: Firefox (my favorite browser), Chrome, and Safari.

So, if your team needs a requirements software and has people who use a Mac, Accompa may be a good fit. Of course, Accompa also works well on Windows, on all major browsers: Firefox, Chrome, and Internet Explorer. If you’d like to find out whether Accompa can help your team – check out our product tour or request free trial.

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